Madrid/Yoleisy Oviedo Rodríguez, who was serving a sentence in the Women’s Correctional, known as El Guatao, in Havana, for participating in one of the protests occurred on the island in October 2022he died Tuesday in prison. He Cuban Prison Documentation Center (CDPC) confirmed the news, although, he said, the causes of death are unknown.
The organization echoed comments on social networks that assured that Oviedo Rodríguez “presented health problems that were not in due course.” At least until yesterday afternoon, CDPC denounced, the family had not been able to see the body.
“With deep pain, we confirm the death of the Yoleisy Oviedo Rodríguez political prey at the El Guatao forced labor camp,” the NGO wrote on their networks. “His only ‘crime’ was to raise his voice in a peaceful protest in Güines (Mayabeque).”
“With deep pain, we confirm the death of the Yoleisy Oviedo Rodríguez political prey in the forced Labor Camp El Guatao”
In the same way, he regretted that “the effects of the detention of mothers women do not end in them”, but extend to their children: “Yoleisy was a mother of a 12 -year -old teenager at the time of her arrest. The separation will now be definitive. ”
Oviedo Rodríguez was one of the hundreds of people who took to the street on October 10, 2022 – significant date because it is the day of the start of the wars of independence – in several Cuban municipalities, in the middle of the relentless blackouts. The cacerolazos claiming the return of the current, in municipalities of Mayabeque such as Bejucal, San José de las Lajas, Güines, Nueva Paz or Jaruco, as well as other towns of Villa Clara, Camagüey, Las Tunas, Holguín and Santiago de Cuba, mixed with the screams asking for freedom.
In Güines, where Oviedo Rodríguez said, one of the most sounded protests took place. The protesters closed a street and burned three garbage containers. “The thing became quite ugly,” said a neighbor from the place to 14ymedio. “There was almost nothing, but that was a shout: ‘Put the current, pinga’, ‘Díaz-Canel Singao’ and many more barbarities,” said the man, who said the police arrived with “a truck of special troops And they couldn’t go down. ” He was waiting for them, according to his story, a turbamulture of machete people in hand, who threw stones and glass blinks with excrement.
“There was almost nothing, but that was a shout: ‘Put the current, pinga’, ‘Díaz-Canel Singoo’ and many more barbarities”
The Cuban Prison Documentation Center said in its communication that in just 48 hours, four deaths in prison have registered. “So far this year, there are already 12,” they added. Last December, the same NGO reported at least seven deceased prisoners in custody of the authorities during last November.
According to the report, two of those deaths, that of the political prisoner Manuel de Jesús Guillén Esplugas and that of Raúl Clejer Steris, were accompanied by complaints of violence. The other five deceased were an inmate named Maikel, in the prison Cuba yes, and four prisoners of the Quivicán prison (Mayabeque), whose identities are unknown. All of them, the organization reported, “died from a conjunction of poor medical care, poor diet and bad conditions of prisons.”
In December he died Jorge Luis Torres Vaillantafter being 28 days with a fever without receiving the medical assistance he requested, in the Santiago de Cuba prison in Bonio de Cuba.
